I am having a problem in that sometimes the password confirmation email is not being sent to my users. I think it must be related to the fact that my webhost uses authentication such that emails can't be sent from an account unless the inbox has been checked recently. Is there a way around this? I've had to manually alter several passwords because people registered and forgot their password, and they never received the email confirmation.

Thanks.

The only way I can think of is changing the $config[emailaddy] to an account that get's regularly checked. If they are forcing this type of mail checking then there really isn't a way to bypass it.

The relaying problem you refer to is a factor with email clients, such as Microsoft Outlook. It is a factor with your email client requiring authentication.

Your web server should not have a problem sending mail since it is not relaying via your ISP.

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I don't think that this is a problem of the client in the first place. The problem is, that pure SMTP (the protocol for sending mail) has no user authentification. So everyone can use SMTP so send mail via ANY Server. So some provider allow sending mails over their server only if you have first fetched your mails via POP. Fetching mail does only work with a valid username and password. If the server detects a POP-login it allows sending mails for this IP for a short period of time.

The problem with clients like MS Outlook is, that they always try to send outgoing mails via SMTP before fetching incoming mails via POP. So sending mail will only work on the second try. A solution is to create 2 accounts for the same server and then to use the second one for sending mails.

If it is possible with PHP to fetch mails via POP then this problem would be solved. But I don't know if it's possible.

nòóx

Downhill Rangers

I don't believe that POP authentication is valid for mail being sent localhost, which is where a script will be sending from.


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Yes, you're right. It would be very strange. Maybe I'm wrong, but he said

nòóx

Downhill Rangers

Here is what my webhost says about SMTP:
http://www.support.christianwebhost.com/email2.html#relaying%20denied

I know that I can't send an email via Outlook Express without checking my inbox. I just assumed that was why the WWWthreads forum software doesn't email a password verification sometimes. I've also been getting complaints that when people press the "I forgot my password" button at the Login screen, it doesn't always work. Again, I think the reason might be that it works only when I've checked my inbox recently, and when I haven't been online to check my inbox, it doesn't work.